{"id":796,"date":"2026-04-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasbou.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:00:00","slug":"the-next-thing-i-knew-the-everly-brothers-were-sitting-in-my-hotel-room-waddy-wachtel-talks-about-his-1970s-adventures-with-warren-zevon-from-robert-johnsons-licks-to-the-werewolf-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yasbou.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"“The next thing I knew, the Everly Brothers were sitting in my hotel room.” Waddy Wachtel talks about his 1970s adventures with Warren Zevon – from Robert Johnson’s licks to “The Werewolf of London”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wadi Wachtel cut his teeth as an LA session player years before becoming the go-to guitarist for artists like Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, and Keith Richards. In 1972 he was hired there to play guitar for the Everly Brothers. stories we can tell<\/em> Release an album and then go on tour.<\/p>\n
He was hired by Warren Zevon, the keyboardist and guitarist behind such 1970s hits as “Werewolf of London,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” and Linda Ronstadt’s “Hasten Down the Wind.” At the time, Zevon was just a struggling session player. As Wachtel explains, he and Zevon didn’t hit it off at first.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe quickly became like water and oil,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n